Pixel Counting Nintendo Charts

[PDiddy]

dmillos said:

PDiddy said:

My values are a little higher. What I did was use MC numbers from 2018 (the tracker Nintendo uses for JPN data), and simply ultra zoomed in in paint to count the pixels. After doing this, I calculated that each pixel is about 13,000 units.

Here are my values for CY 2019 for NA and EU:

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
EU	780,000	676,000	806,000	2,938,000
NA	1,222,000	897,000	1,027,000	4,160,000

Awesome, we have very similar values, here is the comparison:

North America	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	2019
Dmillos	1,202,830	878,653	1,016,601	4,097,824	7,195,908
PDiddy	1,222,000	897,000	1,027,000	4,160,000	7,306,000
Diff	19,170	18,347	10,399	62,176	110,092

Obviously there are too many items that cause some margin of error, but I think that in general this is pretty close.

Now the question is how much does this compare to the numbers on VGChartz. It seems that USA is at 6,479,134 for 2019, that is pretty different from our pixel analysis.

For Japan I have 4,392,880 while VGChartz is at 4,461,503 which is extremely close.

Maybe the difference is VGChartz only has USA while Nintendo counts USA+Mexico+Canada and that is why is so much less here.

Yeah, that's why. Europe was the one I was most curious about since we have such little data from the region as a whole. NA was interesting; it seems like it is mainly USA and Canada making up the total. I also wanted Europe so I could do a more apples to apples comparison for my shipments prediction. It seems like UK makes up 18% of the EU total comparing yearly totals. Applying that same figure to the known UK figures gives us around 7.93 million for EU sell-thru.